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Lt. Duke Halliday: [about the policeman] Come on! Get this guy out of my neck.
Joan Graham: Get him off yourself, you speak Spanish.
Lt. Ruiz: [in Spanish] Miss, do you know this man?
Joan Graham: [in Spanish] I've never seen him before.
Lt. Duke Halliday: What did you say to him?
Joan Graham: I've told him that we're complete strangers.
Lt. Duke Halliday: [in Spanish to the police officer] No, no. This is my woman... my wife.
Joan Graham: Wait a minute!
Lt. Ruiz: [in Spanish] Then both of you come to the Inspector General office.
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Col. Ortega: [talking to Lt. Ruiz] Once upon a time there was a little cat who had a little mouse right in his paws but he let the little mouse go that later he could follow that little mouse into a group of little "mouses"
[correcting]
Col. Ortega: mice!
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Lt. Duke Halliday: [to Joan] I'm the kind of guy who doesn't like to turn around, Chiquita. Besides, that there's a guy behind me with a gun. Remember?
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Lt. Duke Halliday: Where's Fiske?
Joan Graham: Taking the parrot for a walk.
Lt. Duke Halliday: You wouldn't be his wife, would you?
Joan Graham: No, I wouldn't!
Lt. Duke Halliday: Mmm-hmm!
Joan Graham: [taking offense] I don't like the 'Mmm-hmm.' I'm not his wife!
Lt. Duke Halliday: If you were, I wouldn't be saying 'Mmm-hmm!'
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Lt. Duke Halliday: [running out of bullets] It'll be getting dark soon. I hate the thought of spending the night with an empty revolver.
Joan Graham: There's always me.
Lt. Duke Halliday: Tonight you gotta pick?
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Joan Graham: ...I gave Jin $2000. I thought it was a fortune.
Lt. Duke Halliday: Don't tell me he clipped you?
Joan Graham: He called it 'borrowing.'
Lt. Duke Halliday: No security?
Joan Graham: Unless you call a nice smile security.
Lt. Duke Halliday: That's all you got for your money?
Joan Graham: Certainly was.
Lt. Duke Halliday: [sarcastically] I'll tell you what, Chiquita, you believe me, and I'll believe you.
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